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The opinion piece discusses the work of Jack Gallant, Jose Carmena, and Michel Maharbiz.Read more about HWNI scientists featured in NY Times article on brain-machine interfaces

Neuroscience pioneer and HWNI member Marian Diamond was named a California Woman of the Century.Read more about Marian Diamond named a California Woman of the Century

The Knight and Walker labs have discovered how to identify REM sleep in EEG recordings.Read more about Brain noise contains unique signature of dream sleep

Congratulations to professor Matthew Walker for winning the Carl Sagan Prize for Science Popularization!Read more about Sleep researcher Matthew Walker wins Carl Sagan science prize

New research from the Whitney lab shows that people perceive the location of objects in…Read more about Vision scientists discover why humans literally don't see eye to eye

In this profile of Professor Daniela Kaufer, read about how she restored youthful functioning in…Read more about Can We Cure Dementia?

Congratulations to HWNI co-founder, former director, and current adjunct professor Corey Goodman for being awarded…Read more about Corey Goodman awarded Gruber Neuroscience Prize

Read the message below from the director of the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute, Ehud (Udi) Isacoff, Neuroscience PhD Program Director Michael Silver, and PhD Program Manager Candace Groskreutz, condemning racial injustice, reaffirming our commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion, and...Read more about Message of support to the HWNI community

Congratulations to Jack Gallant and Chunlei Liu for becoming co-directors of the BIC.Read more about Gallant and Liu to serve as co-directors of the Henry H. Wheeler, Jr. Berkeley Brain Imaging Center

A new video produced by the Simons Institute examines the computational processes by which the brain builds visual models of the external world....Read more about Perception as inference: The brain and computation

Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute (HWNI) faculty members Stephen Brohawn, Diana Bautista, Hillel Adesnik, and Markita Landry have received funding to address the urgent problem of COVID-19.Read more about HWNI faculty awarded grants to tackle COVID-19

Congratulations to HWNI members Andrea Gomez, Richard Kramer and Stephen Brohawn!Read more about Gomez, Kramer, and Brohawn are the winners of the 2020 Rennie Fund for the Study of Epilepsy

Read our Q&A with first author Alex Naka, a Neuroscience PhD Program alum, about a new study that resulted from a collaboration between the Ngai and Adesnik labs.Read more about Same neurotransmitter, different functions: Identification of subnetworks of somatostatin neurons in sensory processing

We are thrilled to announce Yvette Fisher is joining the MCB Neurobiology division and the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute as an Assistant Professor, arriving in July 2021!Read more about HWNI and MCB welcome new faculty Yvette Fisher

Assistant Professor of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Structural Biology Evan Miller has been named a 2020 Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar. He joins 13 other early-career faculty that have created an outstanding independent body of scholarship, and are deeply committed to education.Read more about Miller named a Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar

We do not “need” music to survive, yet rarely do we meet anyone who claims not to love it. Music has the power to unite, entertain, move, and comfort us. However, our relationship with music is full of mystery. From where does something so abstract and seemingly non-essential for human life draw...Read more about Isacoff on music and the mind

Michael Yartsev has been named a 2020 Young Investigator by the Office of Naval Research for his work on “Neural Computations Underlying the Utilization of Sensory Information in Spatial Navigation”.Read more about Yartsev named Office of Naval Research Young Investigator

CRANBURY, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Spectroscopy®, is proud to announce that Markita Landry, Ph.D., has been named the winner of the 2020 Emerging Leader in Molecular Spectroscopy Award. The award will be presented to Landry at the 2020 SciX 2020 conference in October in Sparks, Nevada, where she will...Read more about Landry Named Winner of 2020 Emerging Leader in Molecular Spectroscopy Award

The Cognitive Science Society and the Glushko-Samuelson Foundation will award up to five outstanding dissertation prizes in cognitive science.Read more about PhD alum Falk Lieder wins Glushko Dissertation Prize

PHILADELPHIA—The Mahoney Institute for Neurosciences (MINS) in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania announced that Michael Yartsev, PhD, an assistant professor of Neurobiology and Engineering with the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute and the department of...Read more about Yartsev wins Rising Star Award from Penn Medicine’s Mahoney Institute for Neurosciences

Why neuroscience needs girls: PhD alum Jacobs writes article for kids, covering research by alum BeeryRead more about Why neuroscience needs girls: PhD alum Jacobs writes article for kids, covering research by alum Beery

Research from the Silver lab.Read more about Paying attention can heighten perception by quieting internally generated brain activity

MCB Professor of Neurobiology, Executive Director of the Miller Institute and member of the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute Marla Feller, has been honored with a UC Berkeley Distinguished Teaching AwardRead more about Feller Receives 2020 Distinguished Teaching Award

The SEP awards the Howard Crosby Warren Medal annually for outstanding achievement in Experimental Psychology in the United States and Canada.Read more about Knight awarded the 2020 Howard Crosby Warren Medal from the Society of Experimental Psychologists